High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gail Sheehy (born November 27, 1937) is a best-selling American author, journalist, and lecturer. She is best known for her book Passages and decoding the life cycle of Boomer women and men. Sheehy has also attracted praise for her biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, both Presidents Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.